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Col du Dôme (Mt Blanc Massif, French Alps) suitability for ice-core studies in relation with past atmospheric chemistry over Europe Cover

Col du Dôme (Mt Blanc Massif, French Alps) suitability for ice-core studies in relation with past atmospheric chemistry over Europe

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|Jan 2000

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Language: English
Page range: 993 - 1012
Submitted on: Apr 12, 1999
Accepted on: Sep 17, 1999
Published on: Jan 1, 2000
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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